Of Mixed Messages, Linux and XP
Source: Wired
When Microsoft released a new version of Windows last week, Rob Malda -- one of the creators of the Linux community site Slashdot -- posted this message online in response to a comment about XP:
"I find it amusing that I didn't really even notice (that Windows XP had arrived) until I saw this submission. I know this affects a fair number of users but for the life of me I just don't know why ;)"
Microsoft's marketing budget for XP is reputed to be one of the biggest in software history, but like Malda, some in the Linux community are suggesting that the new operating system's release doesn't make a whit of difference to users of the open-source operating system.
And some companies that base their business on selling Linux -- such as Red Hat -- are saying that XP doesn't affect them at all: "Not one single thing has changed," according to Mark de Visser, a marketing executive at Red Hat.
It's curious, then, that Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's chief technical officer, sent a two-page essay to Wired News that reads like a bill of particulars against XP.
